The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for February 07, 2016

Try Helvetica.

I would have no idea on blood type,have no use for doctors.Yes it is red,has anyone thought about do we see colors the same,Yes red would be red to everyone but is the red i see the same as the red you see?

At least health-wise he’s not the Born Loser.

@Paul or " Space " @Paul or " Space "Here’s what I think, and I’m not a scientist, but I am an electrical engineer. Consider a lab instrument called a spectrometer, which can measure the wavelength of the light reflected off of an object. If the spectrometer compares the light from two different objects and reports that their wavelengths are equal, then the person operating the device concludes that they are the same color. BUT, the spectrometer doesn’t visualize the color. It just renders it as a wavelength numerical value. (From here on, I’m theorizing) The color your mind’s eye sees when you look at a color may not be the same as someone else. But by learning your language you will associate the same name to the color as someone else. I don’t know if it makes any difference how you visualize it, or if there is a way to know if two people visualize it differently. As far as animals goes, you’ll just have to ask them. But I have read that some insects cannot “see” the yellow spectrum of bug-lights. Meaning, that color is not visible to them, so they are not attracted to it. So it makes me wonder how many animals can react in some way (or fail to) to certain light wavelengths but do not actually visualize them?

-My late stepfather had the specialized color blindness known as ‘red-green deficiency’, which apparently happens more often to men than women. During World War II, he was involved in looking at aerial photos that had been taken of enemy troops, and was always able to see where they and equipment were. Why? Because to his eyes, the multiple shades of ‘green’ used to ‘hide’ tanks, equipment and soldiers in uniforms just didn’t work. They stood out against their background, instead of blending in.

We didn’t often see the results of his red-green deficiency in daily life. Since traffic signals were standardized and ‘red’ and ‘green’ were always in the same place, he was perfectly able to drive because he looked at the fact that a light at a particular location was illuminated, and not what color it was. (Early traffic signals did not standardize for locations, so he would not have been able to drive.)

But here is one example of how not seeing particular colors can interfere with daily tasks. If we had a red toy for our dog and left it on the lawn, Dad might easily run into it with the lawn mower, because he couldn’t see it. When we had little red ‘baby’ chairs for the youngest kids and left them on the green-painted back patio, Dad couldn’t find them.

@Paul or “Space”; @Bill Spencer; @Argythree

From my understanding, whether or not animals can perceive color can be determined by the structure of the photoreceptors in their eyes and on the photopigments contained there. For example, in fruit flies, flies with eyes of one particular color (red or wild type) are more attracted to one color (blue or green, I think – I cannot remember) surface on which to lay eggs, whereas flies with brown eyes or white eyes are attracted to different colors. My students tried to do an experiment to determine which wavelength of light were most attractive to flies with different eye pigments. Sadly, due to equipment failure, we did not get reliable results.

@ArgythreeRed-green color blindness is due to a gene on the X-chromosome. Males, having only 1 X-chromosome, will express the trait if they inherit the color-blindness allele from their mother (they inherit the Y-chromosome from dad), whereas females need to inherit 2 copies of the allele (1 from mom and 1 from dad) to express color blindness.

During the human body study in seventh-grade life science, most of my classmates learned their blood types right in class; they were excited to find out their blood types and expected all their classmates to be just as excited as they were. But I said I didn’t know and didn’t care.Years later, while I was periodically selling my plasma, I did find out in passing that I’m type O.Knowledge of one’s blood type before marriage can be important if one wants children; I once heard of someone who had a rare blood type and was told that it would be all right to have children if the spouse had that same rare blood type, which wasn’t likely. It turned out they shared the same rare blood type, so they had healthy children.Organ transplants, too, require the donor and recipient to have the same blood type.

His type is definitely not bold.